Outrage (emotion)  

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"THE corrective, not only of this modern desire for fame, but of all highly developed individuality, is found in ridicule, especially when expressed in the victorious form of wit. We read in the Middle Ages how hostile armies, princes, and nobles, provoked one another with symbolical insult, and how the defeated party was loaded with symbolical outrage. […] But wit could not be an independent element in life till its appropriate victim, the developed individual with personal pretentions, had appeared."--The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) by Jacob Burckhardt

Inversions, the first French gay journal is published. Produced between 1924 and 1926, it stopped publication after the French government charged the publishers with "Outrage aux bonnes mœurs".
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Inversions, the first French gay journal is published. Produced between 1924 and 1926, it stopped publication after the French government charged the publishers with "Outrage aux bonnes mœurs".

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  1. an extremely violent or vicious attack; an atrocity
  2. an offensive, immoral or indecent act
  3. the resentful anger caused by such acts

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Etymology

Via French from Late Latin ultraticum = "a going beyond", and not from out and rage.

Outrageous

  1. Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
  2. Fierce, violent.
  3. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.
  4. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.

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